From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: noloader@gmail.com
Subject: Emacs distribution tarball now supports 'make check'
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:54:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78aa36b5-b1bb-fdf5-736f-fc3ca67badcc@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3851b52-4267-7189-a0bc-98baeb9a8c69@cs.ucla.edu>
On 5/3/19 3:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> We've talked before about distributing tests in the Emacs tarball -
> which is what the GNU Codings Standards recommend and what pretty much
> every other GNU package does - and this email suggests that now's a good
> time to do that. Distributing tests adds about 2.5% to the size of the
> compressed tarball, and nowadays that is a small price to pay for making
> tests available to people building from a release tarball rather than a
> Git clone. Proposed patch attached as patch 0002, and comments welcome.
No comments other than Alan's, so I updated that patch with Alan's
comments in mind (the updated version says that 'make check' is intended
mostly to help developers), and installed it into the master branch.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-16 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-03 18:41 make check fails due to missing test directory Jeffrey Walton
2019-05-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 22:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-04 9:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-04 15:56 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-04 16:44 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-16 17:54 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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